Located on the sheltered bay side of the Caribbean, it offers all the comforts and amenities of a deluxe resort. Barcelo Costa is located in the magnificent Playa Lindo area of Cancun, Mexico. Only five minutes away from the downtown area and 10 minutes from the Cancun International Airport. Hotel offers 24 hour All Inclusive facilities and a family-friendly vibe.

The Barcelo Costa Hotel Cancun has 357 one and two bedroom guestrooms, each with a beautiful ocean or garden view. Superior rooms have a king-size or 2 double beds, air-conditioning, iron, minibar, coffee maker, telephone, radio and safety deposit box.

Food good and great varied range. Restaurant “Albatros” allows you to eat all you can at your leisure. And Beach Bar: Relax under a Mexican palapa with an amazing view of the Mexican Caribbean.

Amenities: Swimming Pool, Meeting Facilities, Babysitting, Restaurant in Hotel, Kitchen, Scuba Diving, Snorkeling, Water Skiing, Fishing.  The golf course in Pok ta Pok is located just a short distance away.

La Purificadora Boutique Hotel is located in the oldest part of the historic center of Puebla, Mexico.  Designed by Legorreta + Legorreta, the hotel occupies the remains of 1844 stone-walled factory and successfully blends 19th century architecture with modern design. The Boutique Hotel has colonial heritage and is registered as historical patrimony, which must be respected as part of the new design project.

The rooftop terrace bar has become the latest hotspot in Puebla and buzzes till the early hours with a young, stylish crowd. The open-to-the-sky lobby area with a sweeping staircase offers spectacular views of the city. Other highlights include a 30-meter elevated glass-walled swimming pool and a restaurant with an outdoor patio.
 

The 26 rooms, identified by letters of the alphabet, are not huge but the expansive floor-to-ceiling window or balcony door and transparent closets lend a feeling of light and space. The minimalist design blends glass, dark stone and heavy wood features, adding splashes of purple for a more playful feel.

The materials used are: stone from the original construction, old wood that contrast with the contemporary materials such as glass and steel incorporated in to the new design, as well as specially designed floor tiles for the bedrooms floors and onyx in the restrooms. Bottles and glass fragments are also integrated in the hotel’s graphic design.

Tulum is located on the southern edge of Mexico’s Riviera Maya. The place is unique, a strip of beach and jungle peppered with stylish haute-bohemian huts and ancient ruins overlooking the Caribbean. The may site in Tulum may have been also known by the name Zama, meaning city of Dawn.

Tulum has architecture typical of Maya sites. Among some of the more spectacular buildings at the site is the Temple of the Frescoes, that included a lower gallery and a smaller second story gallery. The archeological city of Tulum is compact and best-preserved coastal Maya sites. The modern tourism development along the Mexican Caribbean coastline has made it a popular destination for tourists. A large number of cenotes are located in the Tulum area, such as Maya Blue, Naharon, Temple of Doom, Tortuga, Vacaha, Grand Cenote, Abejas, Nohoch and cave systems.

You can cool down at the small, but sweet Grand Cenote, a freshwater cave, 20 minutes from Tulum. You can snorkel and dive in there, exploring all the usual suspects: stalagmites, stalactites and a lot of tourists just like you. Entrance fee, 600 pesos, masks, snorkels and flippers.

If you need a massage, visit Ocho Tulum, one of the newer so-called eco-resorts. It has two alluring palapas massage rooms planted just above high tide.

Ocho Tulum also offer a brand new yoga studio and vinyasa classes every morning. The town is a hot spot for yoga tourists.

How to get there: Cancun is four hours from New York City. Round-trip prices this month start at under $400. It is cheaper, and easier, to rent a car than to rely on taxis, even though most of beachfront Tulum is a walking town. Tulum is about 75 miles south of Cancun on Route 307. Be extremely aware of the speed limits: they drop precipitously at each town, and the police are vigilant. Photos: Michael Nagle

One of Mexico’s largest islands, Cozumel lies 20 km from the mainland, and 60 km south of Cancun. It’s flat limestone formation shaped like a holster and pierced by dozens of cenotes (water filled sinkholes), many with their own marine forms, which are an extra attractions for swimmers and snorkellers who come to explore the island’s fantastic offshore reefs. Photo by: kristiankristof

You’ll never get a better chance to appreciate Mayan culture so close to good beaches. The biggest Mayan site, San Gervasio (named much latter), was for centuries sacred to Ix Chel, the goddess of fertility, and one of the Yucatan’s most important sanctuaries. There are several others, recovered from jungle and swampy mangrove lagoons now teeming with cormorants, pelicans, primary-coloured tree frogs, iguanas and crocodiles. Photo by: devildiver

You can see 250 species in its clear waters, including the bright blue-and-yellow queen angelfish, the toad fish and enormous sponges like the barrel and elephant ear, which grows to 3,6 m across. Cozumel is fabulously pretty and exotic place, and you should go there with someone who love and watch the sunset. Photo by: Yankee in Texas

When to go: Year-round. Temperatures average 32 degrees Celsius in July and August, and 24 Celsius in December and January. Come for the traditional feasting, rodeos, bullfights music and fairs of the 5-day Festival of El Cedral in late April and May. Population: 73,193. How to get there: By air to San Miguel from Houston, New York, Miami and Mexico City. Photo by: kristiankristof

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Riu Palace Riviera Maya is located on one of the most exotic Caribbean beaches. 1.5 miles from Playa del Carmen and 35 minutes from the airport. Surrounded by 35,000 m2 /42,000 sq. yards of lush gardens.

The resort is so well maintained and absolutely spotless in cleanliness. The rooms were very nice and spacious. This spectacular hotel boasts 400 elegant junior suites. 400 stylish rooms, beautifully appointed with dark wooden furnishings and details in tropical colors. All rooms have balconies, flat-screen TVs, minibars, and liquor dispensers.

Hotel amenities include the beach access, continental breakfast room service, outdoor swimming pool, Jacuzzi, children’s swimming pool, children’s playground, hairdresser, fitness center, sauna, spa, beauty salon, shop and tennis courts.

Magnificent spa that features a variety of treatments, beauty salon and relaxing massages.

The restaurants cater to international tastes and include Japanese fare at Yashimi, Brazilian specialties at Botafogo and a new a La Carte restaurant called the Krystal Dining Room.

Luis Barrag?n is easily the most influential architect of the 20th century in Mexico. Born in Guadalajara, he created an architectural style that combined modernism with the colonial and pre-Hispanic architecture. The works of Luis Barragan have had an important impact especially on the design of garden and urban design.

The Luis Barragan’s masterpiece is the House in the suburbs of Mexico City. Built in 1948 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004. Beyond its stark facade, the Barragan House is a showplace for his use of color, form, light, and shadow.

The house has a total area of 1,161 m2, consists of a ground floor and two upper storeys. The back of the House opens onto the garden creating tranquility away from the urban surroundings. Barragan believed that the garden was just as important as the building itself. This unique building is currently listed with Sotheby’s Realty at a price of $9.95 million.

Today the house is a museum honoring the Barragan’s work. Visitors may tour the living areas, design studio and garden areas, but photographs of it are hard to come by. The Museum is open: Monday to Friday from 10 to 14:00 hrs and 16:00 to 18:00 hrs, and Saturday from 10:00 hrs a 13:00 hrs.

Hotel Basico has a brave concept consists of modeling the entire aesthetic on the industrial oil rigs of 1950 in Mexico. The structure is situated on Playa del Carmen’s exclusive Fifth Avenue shopping and restaurant strip. The hotel offers rooms looking out onto a central mess hall-like restaurant area (best fish tacos in the ‘hood).

Above is a rooftop cocktail bar that includes luxurious cabanas made from the back of old trucks with inbuilt mattresses, two concrete petroleum tanks that serve as swimming pools. From the pools you can sip old-school margaritas and look down on the crowds below and out to the Caribbean. Breezy lounge music and handsome hotel staff waft the building.

Each room has exposed pipes with fire hydrant-style taps run along the walls. An industrial-strength bath and the king-sized, multi-purpose bed (perched on an elevated palate) sit in the middle of the room. Everything is exposed and raw; the toilet is the only thing in the room concealed. There are rubber curtains on the floor-to-ceiling window and pulley chain detailing throughout. The signage around the hotel references the typography of Mexican taxis from the 1950s. Superbly construction-worker chic!

Be sure to borrow the hotel snorkeling gear and visit the surrounding cenotes (underwater caverns teaming with colorful fish).

Nisha Lounge is a sophisticated place that houses a lounge and a restaurant bar area connected by a lobby. The Nisha Lounge is located in trendy Mexico City area, Mexico.

The lounge walls are covered in wood surrounded by large windows overlooking the forest. There’re several sets of living rooms, each one with plasma screens and comfortable furniture.

The restaurant-bar area is spectacular surrounded by crystal walls that change colors in combination with the music and the videos. There’re a 15 meter long bar and a 3 meters height hi-res video screen.

The restrooms were designed with a service bar and cozy sofas. The use and the color mix in every space of the premises create visual delight complemented by the music, the videos and the social atmosphere.

V Hotel is a fantastic jungle retreat near the fishing village of Yelapa in tropical Mexico. This modern hotel was designed by Heinz Legler and us a 5 acre area with infinity pool, spa, restaurant, yoga hut and 8 gust rooms.

This year the hotel was expanded with V-Houses, which are 5 units with 3 units for hotel staff, 2 for guests, a kitchen and a colorful shared bathroom. The V Houses are made of steel, plywood and red corrugated iron roofs.

Guests will enjoy the stunning views for sure by themselves and don’t mind about the windows. They won’t need them on this tropical paradise.